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An anonymous reader writes "Buckminster Fuller eat your heart out — LA-based design firm Scout Regalia has created a mail-order template for a geodesic gingerbread house that you can make at home. When you order a Gingerbread Geodesic Dome, you will receive a cardboard template that is very simple to put together. You then bake the gingerbread and cut it into little hexagons that are then 'glued' to the dome shell with icing."

Especially given the image of the template that they have on their site.. Looks like you could make one yourself MUCH faster than you could have it delivered in the mail! But it's a cool idea none the less.

And here I thought "Internet Time" was based on the UNIX epoch. After all, POSIX time has been employed by Internet infrastructure since before the World Wide Web, whereas Swatch Internet Time is displayed on wrist-watches that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Internet and are used by nobody.

Anywho, Swatch Time does not seem to include a date component, so you probably won't find it used for expiration warnings. Or anything else.

Gingersnaps are usually baked as a drop or ball cookie, like a peanut butter cookie is.

If you instead roll the dough out flat and even on the cookie sheet, and bake a little bit slower to avoid being burned on the outside and raw in the middle (drop baking temp down to something like 250 or 275F, instead of 350F, and bake a little longer) then when you remove the "super cookie" from the oven you can cut it with cookie cutters while it is still hot.

When it cools, it will be quite firm, and perfectly edible. Crispy and hard, actually, hence the name "ginger snap".

You have to cut on removal from the oven, and not before baking, because they are a drop cookie and expand while baking.

I have a good friend who's parents live in a geodesic dome. It's an interesting living space, but the one thing to be wary of is that sounds follow the walls in sometimes unexpected ways. You can be whispering near the wall in one spot, and be heard perfectly well in an opposite part of the house or even on another floor.

So, word of warning. Use this template and you may be accidentally hear what the gumdrops say about you behind your back.

Seriously? 25 bucks for a pattern to make a tiny geodesic dome? I expect one of the next ten posts to contain a link to the equivalent free version whipped up in two minutes or I don't know this site anymore.

"Regular" means all the faces are the same. A soccerball is not a regular solid, because it is made from 2 different shapes.

A regular triangle has 3 identical sides, yes. However, this tesselates on a flat plane, and does not form a closed solid. This is why the triangles have to not be equilateral for a regular icosahedron.

A regular icosahedron is made from the same slightly acute angle triangular face on every face. This is why it is a regular solid.

wrong. these are not exact equilateral hexagons and pentagons, this is what's called a frequency-2 geodesic, so there are two lengths of sides, roughly 7:8 ratio. exact pentagons and hexagons won't line up, try it.

It is in fact made of equilateral hexagons and pentagons. What it isn't made up of is true equilateral triangles. Each triangle face is slightly elongated so that the vertex of the triangle is raised above the plane of the hexagon/pentagon so that the resulting vertex is on the same circumscribed sphere that the hexagon/pentagon vertexes are on. That results in two different lengths of chords in the final dome, but all of the chords forming hexagons and pentagons in the base 'soccer ball' will be equilateral.

Note that the gingerbread pattern isn't a true geodesic dome, as it is made up of just the hexagons and pentagons, not the subdivided triangles. So a gingerbread dome-home made from the http://www.geo-dome.co.uk/ [geo-dome.co.uk] pattern would be more impressive and satisfying to the pedantic nerds here on/.

You don't need pasteurised egg whites. It's the yolks that are risky. Egg whites have natural strong antibacterial properties, and can be kept at room temperature in a bowl for several days without any health issues.
And after the icing dries out overnight, its basically the same as the egg white powder.
I have been using fresh egg whites for icing for decades and there haven't been any problems with it. Just to be sure there are no traces of yolk in it.

If you know your egg source, there's not much danger in a raw egg. Only eat raw eggs that didn't get wet or crapped on first (both are obvious). I try to avoid eating them raw from the store because I simply don't know where they came from (and the salmonella recalls lately have been really common) and they've been cleaned and you can't tell which started out dirty. It is thought that very few eggs actually come out of the hen with the germs inside already (I think what I read was 1 in 20,000) so if you

Royal icing is pretty nuts stuff too. A friend had their wedding cake made with it, with a rather dense liquor-infused cake recipe (like Christmas pudding), and it's so hardy that they just mailed slices of their cake wrapped in a bit of paper to friends overseas that couldn't make the wedding!

They said that recipe could be just left sitting around the house (er, presumably covered) for months and eaten with no ill effects... [in fact, they made the cake several months in advance, so it could "age".]

It's a truncated icosahedron. Hexagons and pentagons put together. The same structure as a typical soccer ball, or the C60-molecule.

A proper gingerbread geodesic would probably be very tricky to put together as the triangles would look almost identical but have subtle differences.The largest structure of identical triangles is the icosahedron, and it hardly looks dome-like.

I made a gingerbread ball out of hexagons as a teenager. The only difficulty was to make hexagons that were flat enough, hexgonical enough and with straight enough edges. The shape was distorted when cutting the warm gingerbread and also when it cooled down. I remember grinding the edges afterwards to get a better fit. Small distortions also created larger distortions as the ball grew (I used a lot more and smaller hexagons than they do in TFA).

I have to admit that I enjoyed watching the video, and the very idea is pretty cool. I was disappointed that the cardboard support never goes away (isn't he ever going to eat the thing?) but seeing all the 'ginger snap, not gingerbread' postings above helped remind me why I keep coming back to/.

That said - the video seemed less like a video, and more like a collection of chronologically-arranged stills. I guess if you're providing the video as help, given the people making it, then you can assume that th